The disabled of our community have limited mobility, lack of equal consideration in society and other related social and economic constraints. In Zambia, disabled face discrimination in many ways, due to their disabilities, poverty and illiteracy. They have no skills and access to technologies that would enable them to have online presence. They need equal representation, their voices are needed online so as to have their views head.
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Day to day life, challenges and opportunities which they face in accessing essential services and their civic participation, as well as other social and economic issues which affect them will drive content production. This will include individual short stories and participatory content in form of text and video. A group blog besides an aggregated Video blog will be created and published online, and maintained.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
We have identified and partnered with other organizations and groups that work with disabled people that will help us access and mobilize beneficiaries, and youth resource centers with computer labs to help us provide access to computers and internet as well as meeting space for camps. We also plan to create linkages with the association of people with disabilities, the social welfare department, and the bloggers’ network in Zambia.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
30 staff from organisations that directly or indirectly work with the disabled such as CBOs/NGOs that serve people with disabilities,women and youth organisations that serve the disabled, will be be trained as trainers,will further train other 60 focal persons among the disabled themselves.A bi-monthly boot camp will be organised to provide further mentor-ship,monitor progress and plan for further development.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Recommendation of the project to other relevant institutions for collaboration. Domain name registration and hosting for content.Online marketing for the project and it's citizen media content to the relevant audience, a wider community and relevant stakeholders.
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